Word: brescia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fogg Museum has just acquired by purchase a number of engravings, both old and modern, of considerable artistic and theatrical value, it was announced yesterday. Two rare 15th Century engravings by Martin Schongauer and a fine early Renaissance print by Giovanni da Brescia are among the best of the new acquisitions...
Turati. As the loyal mechanic stepped down, there stepped up into his place Signor Augusto Turati of Brescia, a newspaper man of milder temper. It was asserted widely last week that this exchange is designed to mark the end of what has been called the "Fascist phase of terror." The moderate Fascist clique, headed by Minister of Interior Luigi Federozoni, is announced to have won Mussolini over to a slightly less harsh and repressive policy. Last week the event of significant note was merely that Farinacci did as he was told, resigned. Observers opined that he will certainly be rewarded...
According to sleuths, the Premier motored to a station near Rome where an express train was held up for him. At the insignificant station of Soave, between Verona and Brescia, he alighted. There an automobile awaited him and off he tore in it, heeding not a gesticulating policeman who tried to stop him for speeding. At Gardone, which lies in the mountains between Lago d'Iseo and Lago di Garda, the automobile slowed up. Hundreds of peasants who had heard rumors of his coming were on hand to greet...
With the magnificent gesture peculiar to him, Gabriele d'Annunzio, now Prince of Snowy Mountain, wrote to the newspaper Provincia di Brescia affecting proud disdain of the world, the flesh and the devil outside of his villa: "I beg you to declare that I have become the solitary, proud artist of 1911. It is my firm decision not to care or to know what happens outside my villa. Every evening, I burn before an altar of stone the heap of the day's unopened and unanswered letters. To write to me is useless, to come to my door...
...permit the meeting to take place. The Opposition became livid, published a manifesto in which Benito's act was described as "a new demonstration of the policy of repressing every liberty pursued by the present Government." While rain and hailstones swept over Milan, Piacenza, Mantua, Novara and Brescia - Bergamo and Verona experienced, for the first time in memory, a Summer snowstorm. The Italian Tyrol was so cold that people were forced to wear furs. Throughout northern Italy the rivers and lakes overflowed, causing much damage to crops. The Italian ex-Servicemen's Association ended its annual Congress...